Taming the To-Do List: How to Choose Your Best Work Every Day

by Glynnis Whitwer

Overview

No matter how hard women work or how much they accomplish in a day, there's lingering anxiety and guilt over what they didn't do. We just wish the world would stop for a day so we could catch up.

Glynnis Whitwer has identified what makes us feel so overburdened—and it's probably not what you think. Taming the To-Do List exposes a seismic shift in our society: from one in which most of us were proactive toward one where we now carry the burden of having to respond—to every email, text, tweet, and message we receive. This major shift creates a cycle where everyone else sets the priorities for our days, rather than us designing our own lives.

Taming the To-Do List addresses this significant change in how we manage our time and the issue of procrastination from a woman's point of view. It addresses the common household tasks many women put off, like doing housework and scheduling doctor's appointments, and moves on to the larger, more life-impacting delays of dreams and goals. Combining practical, easy-to-apply advice with solid research and biblical truth, this book is a compassionate yet challenging message of hope for those struggling to choose their best work over busy work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800726720
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/18/2015
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Glynnis Whitwer, executive director of communications for Proverbs 31 Ministries, is a regular contributor to Encouragement for Today, the Proverbs 31 email devotional, reaching over a million women each day. She is the author of I Used to Be So Organized and When Your Child Hurts. Glynnis lives in Arizona with her family.

Jennifer Scapetis-Tycer grew up in Australia and trained and worked in London before coming to live in the U.S. Jennifer has worked in theater, TV, and radio drama. A professional voice and dialect coach, she is currently an assistant professor in the University of Connecticut's Department of Dramatic Arts.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9

Introduction 11

1 Procrastinate? Me? 13

2 What Is Procrastination? 25

3 Understanding Some of the Whys 37

4 Assessing the Price We Pay 50

5 Myth Busters 64

6 Overcoming Our Fears 75

7 Too Busy? 89

8 Thinking with Focus and Clarity 101

9 Taming Our Perfectionist Instincts 114

10 Replacing Bad Habits with Good 127

11 Strengthening Willpower 137

12 Becoming a Wise Time Manager 151

13 Organizing Our Work 164

14 Small Changes Matter 177

15 When Is It Not Procrastination? 189

Notes 195

Editorial Reviews

"Refreshingly real and extremely practical. A must-read." ---Ruth Schwenk, author of From Grouchy to Great

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